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Nerd Vacation to the Earth Simulator

Posted by michael on from the first-random-tourist-that-they-had-ever-had dept.

eecue writes "Earlier this year I went on vacation to japan. At the end of my trip I was lucky enough to receive a tour of the Earth Simulator, which is the world's fastest super computer. I took pictures and wrote about it."

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  1. Hmm by protest_boy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if we can slashdot the worlds fastest supercomputer? ;-)

  2. How Stupid!!!! by brett720 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they are going to simulate the earth...then of course as part of the earth, they will have to simulate the EARTH SIMULATOR(1)...which will have to simulate the EARTH SIMULATOR(2) simulating the EARTH SIMULATOR(1) which will have to simulate the EARTH SIMULATOR(3) simulating the EARTH SIMULATOR(2) simulating the EARTH SIMULATOR(1)..etc.etc.etc...and of course that must go on indefinitely! Dont they have better things to spend millions of dollars of processing power on?

    1. Re:How Stupid!!!! by Genrou · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not only that - it is completelly unnecessary. We all know that, at the end of processing, result will be 42.

  3. I just rooted it. by Stonent1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I changed the password to the final 84 digits of pi. See ya suckers!

  4. Just think! by FyRE666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So if you are in Japan and you are as nerdy as me, email me and I will give you her contact address.
    For the majority of people here, this would be the first female entry in their email client's contact list!

    Man is she in for a bad time!

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    1. Re:Just think! by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 3, Funny

      > ... , this would be the first female entry in their email client's contact list!

      Probably the second -- you forgot Mom's email address ! ;-)

  5. shhhh keep it out of the publ. domain by JOW · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pls. Don't tell anybody that we geeks travel around the world to look at computers,
    If any none nerds find out ! it just confirms the general believe that we are all a group
    Of sad persons with no life

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  6. Re:Reliability of its predictions by Buck2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You Yanks no nothing. ...

    We know something about our language. :)

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  7. Re:In 30 years... by cowtamer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your grandkids' PC will be made out of room temperature superconductors. The "CPU" will be a single chip containing a lattice of 1048576 10 Ghz processors. It will incorporate a quantum co-processor, qubit level hyperthreading, and 1024 Etabytes extratemporal random access storage.

    However, due to the processing power required by Windows Authorized Edition (AE), JRE 25.0, and the GPU cycles required to render clippie in holographic hi-res, it will still take about a second between a menu-click and anything useful happening... (RMSLinux, however, will still run on old 486 SX machines...)

  8. Re:In 30 years... by ShinmaWa · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your grandkids' PC will be made out of room temperature superconductors. The "CPU" will be a single chip containing a lattice of 1048576 10 Ghz processors. It will incorporate a quantum co-processor, qubit level hyperthreading, and 1024 Etabytes extratemporal random access storage.

    Great! Just in time for Duke Nukem Forever!

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